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Megalodon tooth and great white shark tooth held in hand

The largest shark that ever lived – Megalodon (The Meg) in New Zealand

With today’s launch of the film The Meg, Curator of Vertebrates Alan Tennyson looks at what we know about the monster that grew to 18 metres and lived in New Zealand’s waters – the megalodon ‘big tooth’ shark (Carcharocles megalodon).Read more

2018-08-16
By: Alan Tennyson
On: 16 Aug 2018
In: Science

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